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Vendors Asking For An Offer....

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johnworf · 01/08/2022 14:57

...on items in their house.

We're in the middle of buying a house which we paid £27k more than the asking price. Lots of offers on the table and went to best and finals.

In the house are wardrobes in both bedrooms which look fairly new and go nicelly with the decor. Our current house (the one we have sold) has built in wardrobes so we are obviously going to have to buy some wardrobes when we move. They also have a tv in the second reception room which I'm told is 2ish years old.

The vendors estate agent rang this morning and asked a) do we want the items and if so b) what would we offer for them. I asked him to leave it with me until I spoke to my husband about it. DH thinks as we've offered so much over the asking price they should leave the items as goodwill. They don't want the items as they've moved into a static caravan and will have to go to the trouble of selling them if we don't want them.

What would you do? Go with my DH's view of offering nothing or offer them something (they are open to offers and have not asked for a figure)?

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Cuphalffullor · 02/08/2022 08:35

Oven was free standing so not expected. Same as dishwasher and washing machine, also freestanding, which we asked them to take.
Only reason we wanted the oven was it was double and we had a single.

Plumtreebob · 02/08/2022 08:41

Second hand TVs are worthless, even 2yr old ones. It’s wasteful but there you go. The wardrobes I would find ones you like online and then decide if it’s worth paying for the ones in the house. We had vendors insist we buy their shitty old appliances and sofa and refused to exchange until we did. I don’t even live there anymore and still resent it. I bet they were great landlords to their previous tenants 🙄

hedgehoglurker · 02/08/2022 09:05

I'd either offer £100 or say I'm happy for them to remain in property.

Don't say you don't want them, if you do want them, as they might simply dispose of them if not easy to dismantle or sell.

Passanotherjaffacake · 02/08/2022 09:18

Just another perspective - I sold a beautiful old solid wardrobe secondhand before we moved, I put it in for £250 and it went for nearly double after a bidding war and someone picked it up the next day after paying to rent a van. Ditto on garden furniture and a beautiful coffee table. So good quality second hand stuff still shifts. Might not be as hard as some people thing to shift stuff.

AtillatheHun · 02/08/2022 09:20

@LimboLass very sadly not the case. Having just sold my mother’s place I know that high quality Queen Anne, Victorian and Georgian brown furniture (with receipts showing payment of thousands 20 years ago) now goes for absolute buttons as it’s deeply unfashionable and with the cost of shipping or transporting to an auction house plus their fees, it’s better to let a buyer take it for a few hundred the lot. Of course if you happen to be talking gustavian or mid century modern, happy days. But 2nd hand furniture can be a headache to get rid of. “The right price” tends to be sweet f.a.

pimlicoanna · 02/08/2022 09:26

I definitely think they can't be bothered to move them/don't want them. I'd also just say you don't want them but if they don't want to move them that's also fine

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johnworf · 02/08/2022 09:56

Thanks for all of your replies.
I made an offer of £100 via the estate agent. It was an arbitrary amount as I really didn't know what to offer. The EA came back with 'the wardrobes are virtually new and they paid £700 from Ikea for them. They want £200 for them'. As for the tv 'the vendors would like £100 for the tv'.

I've looked through Ikea and can't actually see the wardrobes so they've either been discontinued i.e. not new or they are from somewhere else. Either way I'll sort my own out. £100 for a 2 year+ tv seems a lot so we are going to source our own.

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johnworf · 02/08/2022 10:00

The EA has just messaged me. The smart tv is four years old!!!

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Honeyroar · 02/08/2022 10:03

If you genuinely like the wardrobes and are going to have to buy some anyway don’t cut your nose off to spite your face. Work out what it would cost to buy new, look on Facebook marketplace and see what you could buy second hand locally, and work out what would be a reasonable offer. You’d be saving yourself a lot of hassle if you could buy them at a reasonably cheap price…

Honeyroar · 02/08/2022 10:06

I cross posted with you.

I definitely wouldn’t buy the tv, but I’d still consider the wardrobes. How many are there for £200? You said they matched the decor well, but would your drawers etc match?

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johnworf · 02/08/2022 10:09

Honeyroar I asked the EA for more photos of the wardrobes which he provided. They do look new and they do go with the decor. On reflection it would probably be a PITA to buy new ones and build them so we have said we'll buy them.

But not the tv. It's def not worth £100 and has no warrantly.

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Plumtreebob · 02/08/2022 10:13

Definite no for the TV. I gave away a 5yr old smart TV recently as no one would pay even £20 for it. I also wouldn’t pay £200 for IKEA wardrobes as you have no idea how well they were put together. I have PAX all over my house so I am a fan of them, but I know I took the time to put them together properly.

SatinHeart · 02/08/2022 10:17

I'd give them their 200 for the wardrobes but say no to the TV

Becky6758 · 02/08/2022 10:20

SatinHeart · 02/08/2022 10:17

I'd give them their 200 for the wardrobes but say no to the TV

Same.

RightMessUp · 02/08/2022 13:42

£200 isn't bad for cupboards if they are in good condition

AtillatheHun · 02/08/2022 14:24

£200 for used ikea which also saves them the cost of dismantling is a gift for them

BlueMongoose · 02/08/2022 16:29

Easy. Offer what they are worth to you as they stand. You made an offer with them not included.

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